compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug
Fengguang Wu, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra tracked down
a kernel crash to a GCC bug: GCC miscompiles certain 'asm goto'
constructs, as outlined here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670
Implement a workaround suggested by Jakub Jelinek.
Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index 842de22..ded4299 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -65,6 +65,21 @@
#define __visible __attribute__((externally_visible))
#endif
+/*
+ * GCC 'asm goto' miscompiles certain code sequences:
+ *
+ * http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670
+ *
+ * Work it around via a compiler barrier quirk suggested by Jakub Jelinek.
+ * Fixed in GCC 4.8.2 and later versions.
+ *
+ * (asm goto is automatically volatile - the naming reflects this.)
+ */
+#if GCC_VERSION <= 40801
+# define asm_volatile_goto(x...) do { asm goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
+#else
+# define asm_volatile_goto(x...) do { asm goto(x); } while (0)
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
#if GCC_VERSION >= 40400